Vladimir Gerasimovich Krivovichev, Honorary Professor of St Petersburg University, has been awarded the N. I. Koksharov Medal, the highest award of the Russian Mineralogical Society.
The professional community recognised his contribution to genetic and physicochemical mineralogy and the systematics of minerals, as well as his many years of work at the SPbU Department of Mineralogy, where he has trained several generations of students and postgraduates.